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While the process now has 300,000 registered voters, the main contenders for the Elysée, apart from Taubira, continue to criticize this election. The disclosure on social networks of a video of one of the organizers explaining how to put pressure on the recalcitrant does not help matters.
December 8, 8 p.m. Anne Hidalgo invites herself to the JT of TF1. Faced with the difficulties of the left, long opposed to a primary, it operates a 180 degree turn. “We must organize a primary of the left refereed by our fellow citizens. If we don’t hold this rally, the left will no longer be able to exist in our country.” she says. For this, the socialist candidate, struggling in the polls, then suggests that she could accept the rules of the People’s Primary, this citizens’ initiative that seeks to unify the left through an online citizen vote. A meeting between its organizers and the First Secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, is also organized the day after the candidate’s TV appearance.
But then, the truth of December is no longer that of mid-January. Now Anne Hidalgo no longer wants to hear about the popular Primary. “They can remove my name”, even loose the mayor of Paris, Friday morning on France Info. If the…